Christmas

Christmas Eve night turned out to be very windy with periods of rain.  The wind and a resulting power outage (short lived) set off a smoke/carbon dioxide detector at 3:15 am.  Luckily it was not a loud noise upstairs and the kids slept through that excitement.  Since Braeden had not been able to fall asleep until 1:30 that sleep was needed!

Christmas morning saw us struggle to keep them "reasonable" hour.  Since reasonable is different to everyone I will just say that we saw the arrival of dawn before we went downstairs.  We were all good enough this year for Santa to remember us.  He must acknowledge effort as well as actual behavior :)

Teagan carefully chose her outfit to go with her glittery red shoes and then forgot to pack the shoes!  SHe was thrilled to put on the outfit before she even saw if Santa had arrived! 

Santa came!
He brought Teagan a microphone.  She was thrilled we were unsure.
Stockings with lots of fun stuff.
A picture before opening the rest of the presents.
Beautiful gifts and quick moving kids.
Me reading about one of Teagan's gifts.  I was tired and always seemed to be a gift or two behind what was actually happening :)
Still opening.
Afternoon meant time for some sledding.  Braeden cruised down creating a trail,
while Teagan worked on getting to the top.
After sledding Teagan came in a put on her new High School Musical pajamas, robe, and slipper socks.  She stayed in them the rest of the day!
An attractive make-up job done by Teagan herself.  She asked Santa for make-up and High School Musical cards and he complied.